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Experiences of Performing Daily Activities in Middle-Aged and Older Autistic Adults: A Qualitative Study
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Vol.53, pp.2037-2049
05/2023
PMID: 35217945
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Abstract
This is the first study to investigate instrumental activities of daily living in older autistic adults. We conducted interviews with fifteen adults (mean age = 60.1, SD = 7.4, range = 50-73) from Australia with no intellectual disability. Analysis included both deductive and inductive steps, to categorise responses using the Occupational Performance Model Australia and identify themes across participants' experiences. Strengths and challenges were unique to the individual, as were the methods they had developed to manage tasks. Challenges occurred mostly at the interaction between aspects of the environment (sensory, cognitive, social and cultural) and personal factors such as health conditions and sensory sensitivities. Enhanced person-environment fit is needed, as is a shift in wider sociocultural attitudes to enable comfort and autonomy in later life.
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- Title
- Experiences of Performing Daily Activities in Middle-Aged and Older Autistic Adults: A Qualitative Study
- Creators
- Ye In Jane Hwang - UNSW SydneyKitty-Rose Foley - Southern Cross UniversityKieran Elley - UNSW SydneyScott Brown - Creative Robotics Lab, UNSW Art & Design, Paddington, NSW, AustraliaDawn Joy-Leong - UNSW Art & Design, Paddington, NSW, AustraliaXue Li - Primary Health CareRachel Grove - Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, AustraliaJulian Trollor - Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, School of Psychiatry, UNSW Medicine & Health, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaElizabeth Pellicano - School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaLidan Zheng - Neuroscience Research Australia
- Publication Details
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Vol.53, pp.2037-2049
- Publisher
- Springer New York LLC
- Grant note
- Ageing Futures Institute Seed Funding Grants 2020 / University of New South Wales
- Identifiers
- 991012997890802368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2022 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Academic Unit
- Allied Health and Midwifery; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article